It is therefore the declared policy of the United States—
(1) to designate the metric system of measurement as the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce;
(2) to require that each Federal agency, by a date certain and to the extent economically feasible by the end of the fiscal year 1992, use the metric system of measurement in its procurements, grants, and other business-related activities, except to the extent that such use is impractical or is likely to cause significant inefficiencies or loss of markets to United States firms, such as when foreign competitors are producing competing products in non-metric units;
(3) to seek out ways to increase understanding of the metric system of measurement through educational information and guidance and in Government publications; and
(4) to permit the continued use of traditional systems of weights and measures in non-business activities.
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It is therefore the declared policy of the United States—
(1) to designate the metric system of measurement as the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce;
(2) to require that each Federal agency, by a date certain and to the extent economically feasible by the end of the fiscal year 1992, use the metric system of measurement in its procurements, grants, and other business-related activities, except to the extent that such use is impractical or is likely to cause significant inefficiencies or loss of markets to United States firms, such as when foreign competitors are producing competing products in non-metric units;
(3) to seek out ways to increase understanding of the metric system of measurement through educational information and guidance and in Government publications; and
(4) to permit the continued use of traditional systems of weights and measures in non-business activities.
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§ 205b. Declaration of policy
It is therefore the declared policy of the
United States—
(1) to designate the metric system of meas-
urement as the preferred system of weights
and measures for United States trade and
commerce;
(2) to require that each Federal agency, by a
date certain and to the extent economically
feasible by the end of the fiscal year 1992, use
the metric system of measurement in its pro-
curements, grants, and other business-related
activities, except to the extent that such use
is impractical or is likely to cause significant
inefficiencies or loss of markets to United
States firms, such as when foreign competi-
tors are producing competing products in non-
metric units;
(3) to seek out ways to increase under-
standing of the metric system of measurement
through educational information and guidance
and in Government publications; and
(4) to permit the continued use of traditional
systems of weights and measures in non-busi-
ness activities.
(Pub. L. 94–168, § 3, Dec. 23, 1975, 89 Stat. 1007;
Pub. L. 100–418, title V, § 5164(b), Aug. 23, 1988, 102
Stat. 1452.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1988—Pub. L. 100–418 amended section generally. Prior
to amendment, section read as follows: ‘‘It is therefore
declared that the policy of the United States shall be
to coordinate and plan the increasing use of the metric
system in the United States and to establish a United
States Metric Board to coordinate the voluntary con-
version to the metric system.’’
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
IMPLEMENTATION OF METRIC USAGE IN FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT
Secretary of Commerce designated to direct and co-
ordinate implementation of Government metric usage,
see section 1 of Ex. Ord. No. 12770, July 25, 1991, 56 F.R.
35801, set out as a note u